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The first American patriots pledged, and many later gave, everything—“Our Lives, our Fortunes and our Sacred Honor”—to defend certain truths. Yet, as the bicentennial of the signing approaches, many of the present...

One of the most significant characteristics of the U. S. Navy 25 years after World War II is its continuing dependence on the “well-rounded,” general-purpose line officer for the operation, maintenance, and tactical employment of the...

Mushrooming below these South Korean youngsters is a modern capital that has been raised from the rubble left when the First Marine Division liberated Seoul from the North Koreans in September 1950. While that Korean War did not...

Economically, containerization is a golden goose; militarily, it could become an albatross. Consider this: in World War II, the number of enemy submarines was small and the number of Allied ships was extremely large. In a future war, the...

At 6:00 a.m. on Sunday, 28 October 1923, the USS O-5 (SS-66) had passed the luxurious Washington Hotel on Manzanillo Point, Colon, Panama, and was proceeding on a southerly course across Limon Bay, en route to Gatun Locks. The 173-foot,...

An America which, for almost two centuries, relied on its farmers, shopkeepers, and businessmen to don uniforms, wage a war, and then return to their civilian pursuits may one day soon place its faith and its future in an All Volunteer...

In 1917, as America entered upon her first Struggle for Democracy, on some fronts the war quickly became one of words—on the home front these appeared as carefully selected phrases that were combined with pictures aimed at convincing...

In December 1927, Rear Admiral R. E. Coontz, Commandant, Fifth Naval District, submitted an article to the United States Navy Weekly. Forty-four years later, his grandson, Captain Robert J. Coontz, U. S. Navy, found a copy in his...